KIM BYUNGKWAN: Based in Seoul, South Korea, Kim studied art at Hansung University before going on to build a career as an artist. Kim’s work primarily seeks to disrupt everyday familiarity – he is renowned for breaking up his portrait and fgurative paintings with scribbles and smears of paint, mainly over the subjects' faces. For Kim, familiarity is a form of habitual vison which essentially creates comfort, but in doing so, shuts down other opportunities and limits possibility. Kim says: “My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct habitual vision so that our vision can be extended to other images. The unfamiliar image I draw works to break up the way we see things usually. I think that one of the important functions of art is to show a new vision to the world.”
KNH #006 Original Acrylic on Canvas Image: 100cm x 72.5cm Framed: £3,950.00
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